Judge Christine Henson, resident judge at Lewes Crown Court, has been appointed honorary recorder of Brighton and Hove. It is an unpaid ceremonial role.

A Hollingbury resident wants Brighton and Hove City Council to protect front gardens and plant more street trees. The petition has 179 signatures so far.

The scheme was due to start tomorrow. Brighton and Hove City Council has paused landlord licensing in Regency and Central Hove after a legal challenge, and will not say who brought it or why.

Sussex Police have released an image of a woman they want to speak to after a reported antisemitic hate crime in Hove on 11 September. Here is how to report information.

Brighton and Hove City Council now forecasts a £23.8 million overspend, up almost £3 million in a month, with £18.9 million more in risks. Here is what the council's own report says.

A Southwick company owner has been convicted of four counts of fraudulent trading after victims lost more than £1.15 million selling jewellery, watches and gold. Sentencing is on 5 November.

A man in his 30s has died following an incident at Saltdean on Thursday 15 October. HM Coastguard, a coastguard helicopter, the Brighton RNLI lifeboat, ambulance crews and Sussex Police attended, and police say his death is not being treated as suspicious.

Georginio scored twice, with Jack Hinshelwood and Matt O'Riley also on target, as Albion opened their UEFA Conference League campaign with a 4-0 win over Kauno Zalgiris at the Amex on Thursday 15 October.

Brighton and Hove poet Louise E. Taylor celebrates Kew Gardens publishing her poem Sown Together, and launches a two day performance poetry workshop at One Garden, Stanmer Park, on 7 and 8 November.

Albion beat Crystal Palace 5-0 at the Amex on 18 October 2026, with Diego Gomez scoring from 51.3 yards and three goals inside ten minutes.

Brighton and Hove will hold its first Care Leavers Christmas Dinner in seven years on 25 December 2026, and the organisers need donations, gifts and fundraisers to finish funding it.

East Sussex County Council has started a judicial review over the plan to move Peacehaven, Telscombe Cliffs and East Saltdean into Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove News reports. The government paused the plan on 7 September.

Sussex Police is appealing for witnesses after a man in his 40s was stabbed outside Portslade railway station on the evening of 8 October. He is in a stable condition in hospital and no arrests have been reported.

A free app and website called Where To Wee lists 117 public toilets in Brighton and shows opening hours, accessibility and baby changing details. Here is what it says it does and what we could not confirm.

A man who posed as a taxi driver to kidnap and rape a 19-year-old woman in Brighton city centre has been jailed for 20 years, with Sussex Police appealing for other women to come forward.

A man has died at Rottingdean beach, Sussex Police has said. Officers were called at around 9.40am on Sunday 11 October and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue.

ImJustBrighton is gay-owned. Here is our guide to every Brighton bar closing this year, why each one went, what people said, and which LGBTQ+ venues are still open.

Connie's Pizza, the London pizzeria known for thin, crispy pizza, opens its first site outside London at 44-47 Gardner Street in Brighton's North Laine on Friday 9 October.

Sussex Police says a 58-year-old Brighton man has been charged with failing to comply with a Terrorist Notification Order and was remanded in custody after appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Sussex Police wants to identify a person after a Preston Street burglary in Brighton, where stolen bank cards were later used fraudulently at shops in Western Road, Hove.